E-rewards [Master Thread]
Jan 27, 2014, 3:24 pm
#1471
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: LHR
Programs: Accor PLT,Thai Silver, HH Dia, SPG Titanium (LT Gold), Aegean Gold, BA Silver
Posts: 5,120
Jan 27, 2014, 3:34 pm
#1472
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: CNF
Programs: Priority Club, TAM Fidelidade, BAEC, Marriott Rewards
Posts: 2,184
There are lot's of public invitations. Depends what you want to redeem to. Hilton, British Airways Avios, AA come to mind.
Go to the FF program website, the partners page and look for e-rewards, the invitation is there.
Go to the FF program website, the partners page and look for e-rewards, the invitation is there.
Feb 1, 2014, 11:49 am
#1477
Join Date: Feb 2001
Programs: IHG Diamond, HH Diamond, BW Diamond Select, Accor Silver, Marriott Gold
Posts: 4,231
Looking at it with regard to credit awarded per time spent, no, of course it's not. IMHO, you're crazy to think it might be. It's useful as a way to keep miles/points alive without having to lose value by generating activity some other way, such as by redeeming for something you don't want.
Feb 1, 2014, 5:57 pm
#1478
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 2,905
I don't think the app is worth it. When I first downloaded it, I would get the usual $4 surveys which were fine. By late November, they were offering $1 for answering questions about each store you shopped in on Black Friday.
Now, I either get "Just for Fun" questions that pay no money or surveys that promise me a quarter. Seriously, what's the point? I'm not about to stay hunched over my phone, tapping away for five minutes, for 25 cents of e-rewards currency!
Now, I either get "Just for Fun" questions that pay no money or surveys that promise me a quarter. Seriously, what's the point? I'm not about to stay hunched over my phone, tapping away for five minutes, for 25 cents of e-rewards currency!
Feb 4, 2014, 10:51 pm
#1479
Join Date: Aug 2006
Programs: UA,AA,DL
Posts: 118
Do not accept being dumped by a major corporation like IBM who are trying to steal data by allowing respondents to complete an entire survey including wrap-up questions, and then say they have enough respondents to avoid paying miles. Only if we challenge this will it change!
After a years experience this still remains the only real scam involved, one which United Opinion Miles restricts very tightly helping earn me a Europe trip just from answering their surveys. But eRewards has no real feedback program to tighten up their program to weed out these corporate thefts, which is a slap in the face of their members. So I tend to avoid them or expect to be ripped off about half the time.
Be aware that these opinion gathering organizations are all members of professional associations to whom you can file complaints which will call into question their certification and force their highest execs to respond to ethics charges, of which stealing data from respondents is ranked very serious. They even shield the consumers from backlash. A major university study is now being conducted on this and will be releasing a report this year on the worst offenders.
Here is a sample email I send to the survey's authoring company when I am ripped off after completing an entire survey and then dumped so that a corp like IBM doesn't have to pay miles, with copies sent to the Airline miles VP, eRewards (who never respond) or Opinion Miles (who reply the next day), and Professional Associations who govern these ethics:
"I answer surveys for American Airlines eRewards program. Today I spent 30 minutes answering dozens of detailed Questions for a survey on my home electronic devices for IBM SPSS Data Collection. At the end of the survey as I was being asked the final questions I was dumped out of the survey saying that "We already have enough respondents." This is a theft of my time under the guise of being paid with eRewards dollars for that time.
It is also being discussed in forums like FlyerTalk where respondents are being studied by university researchers who are gathering data about unethical thefts like the one your client perpetrated on me stealing my time tonight under the pretense I was being paid.
You must surely be aware that you belong to professional associations who will sanction this kind of unethical behavior of which stealing data is the most serious. In fact I intend to follow it up to see to it that this happens."
While some of it may be deliberate it may also be gross incompetence. Often the survey company will respond with a sales call to me asking if I am wanting their services. Never underestimate the corporate Peter Principle. But never put up with their theft either. It is pennies to them whether I fly around the world on it or not.
After a years experience this still remains the only real scam involved, one which United Opinion Miles restricts very tightly helping earn me a Europe trip just from answering their surveys. But eRewards has no real feedback program to tighten up their program to weed out these corporate thefts, which is a slap in the face of their members. So I tend to avoid them or expect to be ripped off about half the time.
Be aware that these opinion gathering organizations are all members of professional associations to whom you can file complaints which will call into question their certification and force their highest execs to respond to ethics charges, of which stealing data from respondents is ranked very serious. They even shield the consumers from backlash. A major university study is now being conducted on this and will be releasing a report this year on the worst offenders.
Here is a sample email I send to the survey's authoring company when I am ripped off after completing an entire survey and then dumped so that a corp like IBM doesn't have to pay miles, with copies sent to the Airline miles VP, eRewards (who never respond) or Opinion Miles (who reply the next day), and Professional Associations who govern these ethics:
"I answer surveys for American Airlines eRewards program. Today I spent 30 minutes answering dozens of detailed Questions for a survey on my home electronic devices for IBM SPSS Data Collection. At the end of the survey as I was being asked the final questions I was dumped out of the survey saying that "We already have enough respondents." This is a theft of my time under the guise of being paid with eRewards dollars for that time.
It is also being discussed in forums like FlyerTalk where respondents are being studied by university researchers who are gathering data about unethical thefts like the one your client perpetrated on me stealing my time tonight under the pretense I was being paid.
You must surely be aware that you belong to professional associations who will sanction this kind of unethical behavior of which stealing data is the most serious. In fact I intend to follow it up to see to it that this happens."
While some of it may be deliberate it may also be gross incompetence. Often the survey company will respond with a sales call to me asking if I am wanting their services. Never underestimate the corporate Peter Principle. But never put up with their theft either. It is pennies to them whether I fly around the world on it or not.
Last edited by walkdmx; Feb 9, 2014 at 2:26 pm
Feb 5, 2014, 1:56 pm
#1483
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: VPS
Programs: IHG Diamond, Delta PM, Hilton Gold, Accor Gold, Marriott Silver
Posts: 7,284
Opinion Miles Club rocks for UA survey miles if you've got a USA IP address, especially if you can find one of the 600 mile introductory links for completing the first survey. I'm at around 28K miles from that program since last July.
Feb 5, 2014, 1:57 pm
#1484
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador: World of Hyatt
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: NJ
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Fairmont Lifetime Plat, UA Silver, dirt elsewhere
Posts: 46,919
How much time do you spend on those surveys? I went through about 4 of them yesterday with pretty thorough questions which I answered. When I got to the end, I "didn't qualify." Of course, they already extracted a bunch of useful data from my responses.
I'm pretty much not going to waste any more time with Opinion Miles. At least E-rewards disqualifies you pretty quickly.
I'm pretty much not going to waste any more time with Opinion Miles. At least E-rewards disqualifies you pretty quickly.
Feb 7, 2014, 7:45 am
#1485
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: NW London and NW Sydney
Programs: BA Diamond, Hilton Bronze, A3 Diamond, IHG *G
Posts: 6,347
How much time do you spend on those surveys? I went through about 4 of them yesterday with pretty thorough questions which I answered. When I got to the end, I "didn't qualify." Of course, they already extracted a bunch of useful data from my responses.
I'm pretty much not going to waste any more time with Opinion Miles. At least E-rewards disqualifies you pretty quickly.
I'm pretty much not going to waste any more time with Opinion Miles. At least E-rewards disqualifies you pretty quickly.